Today we are expecting a fine day apart from some morning and evening cloud. Also westerly breezes.

It's a two-clothing layer day today with an expected high of 20 degrees and an overnight low of 13 degrees. Humidity is 81 per cent.

High tide is 8am at and low tide at 2pm. (Tay St times). There's a sea swell of 0.6m, sea temperature is 16 degrees and sunset tonight is at 7.37pm.

If you're going fishing, the next best fish bite time is between 5 and 8pm.

On this day in NZ history in 1949 a meeting in Wellington set up an interim committee for the Intellectually Handicapped Children's Parents' Association (IHCPA), the forerunner of IHC.

In 1971 it was the end of the line for steam railways. The Christchurch–Dunedin overnight express, headed by a JA-class locomotive, ran the last scheduled steam-hauled service on New Zealand Railways (NZR), bringing to an end 108 years of regular steam rail operations in this country.

In world history on this day in 1954 President Dwight Eisenhower conducted the first televised Cabinet meeting. In 1960 Martin Luther King, Jr., was sentenced to four months in jail for a sit-in.

In 1962 in South Africa, civil rights activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to five years in prison.

In 2009 terrorist bombings in Baghdad killed over 150 and wounded over 700.

Today is the birthday of US aviator and explorer Richard E. Byrd. Born in 1888, he made the first flight over the North Pole. He once said "Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used", and "Part of me remained forever at Latitude 80 degrees 08 minutes South: what survived of my youth, my vanity, perhaps, and certainly my skepticism. On the other hand, I did take away something that I had not fully possessed before: appreciation of the sheer beauty and miracle of being alive, and a humble set of values. All this happened four years ago. Civilization has not altered my ideas. I live more simply now, and with more peace.”

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Have a great day!